Gabriel heimler biography
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Wall Jumper
Gabriel Heimler (Paris)
Mauerspringer / Wall Jumper
Since its construction in , the Berlin Wall has served as the world’s most famous symbols of political repression. Once the wall was opened, two artist associations, the VBK from the East and the BBK from the West, decided to invite artists from around the world to paint a section of the wall that ran along the Spree. Extending km, it was the first joint art project between the two Germanys. The project, titled the East Side Gallery, was completed in with the participation of artists.
One of these artists was Gabriel Heimler, who painted his Mauerspringer (Wall Jumper) on site.
This motif has now also taken up residence in Room
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Heimler and Proc
Gabriel Heimler and Anna Proc
Gabriel was born in Paris where he studied at the influential art school Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He then moved to Berlin to pursue a career as an artist. There he was selected to contribute to the Berlin Wall mural project, a series of murals painted by one hundred artists on a km long section of the Berlin wall. His mural 'Wall Jumper' portrayed a West German leaping the Berlin Wall towards an East Berlin phone box, to start making calls to buy up East German businesses. A political commentary on the events of the time. The Berlin Wall murals are now on the last remaining piece of the vägg and are an historical monument, one of the biggest tourist attractions in Berlin. Gabriel's mural was the catalyst for a successful 20 year career with a major Berlin gallery with many solo and group exhibitions. During this time he had work sold at Sothebys auction in New York, helped instigate a revival of Jewish cultural life in Berlin, and cr
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East Side Gallery
Berlin Wall Art gallery
The East Side Gallery (German: East-Side-Gallery) memorial in Berlin-Friedrichshain is a permanent open-air gallery on the longest surviving section of the Berlin Wall in Mühlenstraße between the BerlinOstbahnhof and the Oberbaumbrücke along the Spree. It consists of a series of murals painted directly on a 1,&#;m (4,&#;ft) long remnant of the Berlin Wall,[1] located near the centre of Berlin, on Mühlenstraße in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.
In the spring of , after the opening of the Berlin Wall, this section was painted by artists from 21 countries. The artists commented on the political changes of /90 in a good hundred paintings on the side of the Wall that was formerly facing East Berlin. Due to urban development measures, it is no longer completely preserved, and instead of the originals from then, only the replicas from exist today.
The actual border at this point was the Kreuzberg bank of the Spree. The gallery is, f